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Of all the potential indignities involved in being a “Hooters Girl,” who’d have guessed you could get canned for having the wrong hair color? That’s what Farryn Johnson, a 25-year-old waitress, has alleged in a racial discrimination complaint against Hooters Harborplace in Baltimore, and its corporate parent, Hooters of America. Johnson was fired from the Baltimore venue, she said, because she has blond highlights. “They specifically said black women don’t have blond in their hair so you need to take it out,” Johnson told Baltimore TV station WJZ. I guess Hooters has never heard of Beyonce. Or Mary J. Blige. Or Nicki Minaj. On Monday,...

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Of all the potential indignities involved in being a “Hooters Girl,” who’d have guessed you could get canned for having the wrong hair color?
That’s what Farryn Johnson, a 25-year-old waitress, has alleged